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Laboratory at Christiania. The Bureau consists of an 

 inner circle of three ordinary members, viz.: — 

 Dr. W. Herwig (Germany) as President, 

 Dr. 0. Pettersson (Sweden) as Vice-President, 

 Dr. P. P. C. Hoek (Holland) as Secretary ; 

 and an onter circle of four extra-ordinary members, 

 Capt. Drechsel (Denmark) as Hon. Treasurer, 

 Dr. F. Hansen (Norway), Director of the Laboratory, 

 Prof. 0. von Grimm (Russia), and 

 Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson (Scotland). 

 Thus Great Britain is not represented on the inner circle, 

 and England has no representation even on the outer 

 body, although England's interests in the North Sea 

 Fisheries are admitted to be paramount. 



'The International investigations have been carried 

 on with energy and enthusiasm for the last four and a 

 half years, and the reports that have already appeared — - 

 including " Rapports et Proces-verbaux," " Bulletins des 

 Resultats," " Publications de Circonstance " issued by the 

 " Conseil Permanent International," and the Blue-books 

 and other publications of our own and other Governments 

 — form an enormous body of literature, containing much 

 that is of the greatest interest to scientific men, and some 

 of which will, no doubt, one day find its place in a 

 scheme of knowledge that is useful in connection with 

 practical fisheries questions. 



It is scarcely necessary to point out that a clear 

 distinction can be drawn between a scheme of investi- 

 gation (1) as a piece of pure scientific research, and 

 (2) as a practical enquiry which will solve within a given 

 time and by given means questions of importance to 

 particular industries. Of the interest and importance, to 

 science, of the International work as a piece of pure 

 research there ought to be, and probably there is, no 



